2024-26 Princeton Arts Fellow Gi (Ginny) Huo’s work considers the legacies of belief systems and their geopolitical impact through mapping narratives of land and sites, tracing Huo’s lineages and religious upbringing. The title of the exhibition, spinnerets, refers to the organ of the spider that creates the silk. Inspired by survival techniques found in nature, such as spiders’ camouflaging, trapping prey, and ballooning—a method spider’s use to float distances on currents of air—the work draws parallels practiced in human form. The spider ballooning becomes a metaphor for the ballooning of messages between North and South Korea, which began as a military technique. The work includes imagery of plants and aerial-drawn perspectives of northern O’ahu Hawai’i, retracing back to where Huo was born. With various art mediums such as drawings, steel sculptures, archival photographs, and 16mm film, Huo’s work navigates through perception/truth, translation/interpretation, and the systematic mechanisms of selling a fantasy.
Exhibition Photos
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Jon Sweeney
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Jon Sweeney
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Admission & Details
The exhibition is free and open to the public; no tickets required. The Hurley Gallery is open daily 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
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Accessibility
The Hurley Gallery is an accessible venue. The best accessible entrance to the Hurley Gallery is via the Plaza level entrance using the Arts Tower elevator (down to level M).
A segment of the film included in the exhibition contains flashing lights.
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